As of 1 January 2012 the rules for travelling abroad with your pet changed to allow cats, dogs and ferrets to enter the UK from any country of the world under the Pet Travel Scheme (PETS). This is great news for pets and pet owners as it means your furry friends ...

The Foreign Office has released its rather embarrassing annual report of Brits behaving badly abroad. Statistics for April 2011 to March 2012 show that they received three percent more requests for help (19,874) than the previous year. The largest percentage of problems involved Brits holidaying abroad in Spain, the United States and ...

So much for summer... the weather in the UK, especially the rain, just seems to get worse and worse and we are now into July. With school summer holidays fast approaching many families are wondering whether to scrap their UK holiday plans. What will it be: cheap holiday abroad or UK rain? If ...

Spring is a magical time of year and we humans can only watch in awe as the miracles of nature unfold before our eyes. Birds are busy nesting and raising their young and today we are fortunate to have the technology to witness these events firsthand. We can watch as the adult birds ...

The financial climate is as topsy-turvy as the weather in the UK. Instead of feeling lost and powerless over things you cannot change, why not take advantage. Our holiday budgets are stretched to the max, but good news for Brits is that our hard-earned pound may stretch a bit further at the moment. This ...

Well, 2012 is here and we will just have to wait until the winter solstice on 21 December to see if the world will end. Since the dawn of civilisation humans have worried about Armageddon and various scenarios of how the apocalypse might unfold. Why not plan your end-of-the-world trip now!
The Mayan ...

There's nothing like the feeling of the sun on your skin; that's the reason so many of us sun-starved Brits migrate south for our holidays. Humans are not the only ones to enjoy wallowing in the sun, as you will see from the picture above. Despite all the warnings many ...

Holiday season will be here before you know it. There are many temptations on-line and in the glossy travel brochures. Before you get too carried away don't forget to check the expiration dates of your travel documents such as an EHIC Card, passport and travel insurance. While you have the documents to hand it's a ...

Today marks 100 days until the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London. Much guesswork and speculation persists in the media, especially among travel providers, over the mood of the British people and whether they will choose to stay at home during the 2012 Olympics or leave it to the visitors and head overseas. Are ...

Except for those trekking in remote jungles, surely everyone must by now be aware that 15 April 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The ship left Southampton on 10 April 1912, making a few stops on the way before its maiden voyage to New York City. The ship hit an ...